Bernard Avishai

Bernard Avishai lives in Jerusalem and New Hampshire. He is a visiting professor of government at Dartmouth, an adjunct professor of business at Hebrew University, and formerly taught at MIT and Duke. A Guggenheim fellow, he is the author of The Tragedy of Zionism, A New Israel, The Hebrew Republic, as well as dozens of articles on politics, business and the Middle East Conflict, in such publications as Harper's, The New York Review, The New Yorker, The Nation and New York Times Magazine, and blogs at the Daily Beast and Bernard Avishai Dot Com. He is a former editor of Harvard Business Review, and International Director of Intellectual Capital at KPMG. His most recent book is Promiscuous: "Portnoy’s Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness.

Books

by Jalal Al-e Ahmad

Translated from the Persian and with an essay by Samuel Thrope

Correspondence with Simin Daneshvar

Introduction by Bernard Avishai

The Israeli Republic “suggests how the Iranian and Israeli leaders who feel such intense mutual hostility today actually mirror one another in certain ways, particularly in their foundational attitudes toward religious authority, political and economic populism and the West. That a writer such as Al-e Ahmad, guru to the ayatollahs, liked Israel now seems touching. What he liked about Israel seems cautionary."